Neohaematopinus sciuri Jancke

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 34

Neohaematopinus sciuri Jancke

Ex Sciurus carolinensis (gray squirrel): 1F, TN, Cocke Co., Cosby, 29 May 2001, W. K. Reeves, L­2979.

In eastern North America, this louse is a host specific parasite of the gray squirrel ( Kim et al. 1986, Durden & Musser 1994). Durden (1980) found this louse to be abundant on S. carolinensis in central Tennessee but the above record is the first one for the GSMNP. Several genotypes of undescribed Bartonella have been isolated from this louse (Durden et al. 2004).